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Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: SUBIACO DRAMATIC CLUB IN SOFT-SHOE & SHEPHERDESS COSTUME

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The original black and white photograph shows a row of six women, alternating shepherdesses and soft shoe shufflers. The shepherdesses wear knee length frocks with a hoop protruding from the waist and hung with strips of ribbon creating a lattice-type effect. The skirt is also hung with artificial roses.The outfit is completed with a little bonnet-type hat, also decorated with ribbons and roses and each woman carries a stick with ribbons tied around it. The other players wear the soft-shoe costume described in photograph P.85. 294. There is a copy of the original photograph.

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Registration number

cwa-org-43-1985.295

Item type

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

200 mm

Height or length

150 mm

Keywords

Subiaco Civic Dramatic Club

Statement of significance

Local history

Subiaco Museum

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